Compassion Be With You (Young Justice Quest)

[x] Talk with Black Canary about your Aquaphobia

In theory it may be possible to grant 'healing aura' to someone who is hurt, so that person may survive and heal others, while also heal MC. So in this case MC simply let others heal instead of doing it on her own. I guess this may be worth to test out if self-healing is impossible?
 
In theory it may be possible to grant 'healing aura' to someone who is hurt, so that person may survive and heal others, while also heal MC. So in this case MC simply let others heal instead of doing it on her own. I guess this may be worth to test out if self-healing is impossible?

Peony can't pass healing powers onto others, no. But she does have natural heightened healing already due to plant regrowth. However, it's slow. Not as slow as a human's natural healing process, but too slow to be useful in the middle of combat.
 
[X] Talk with Aqualad some more, once you've recovered a bit.

Isn't Black Canary a florist or something? I'd expect if you want to deal with a phobia you'd go to a psychiatrist, preferably one of the same species for proper compatibility. Well I suppose a psychosurgeon would probably also work if that's a thing you can find.
 
Isn't Black Canary a florist or something? I'd expect if you want to deal with a phobia you'd go to a psychiatrist, preferably one of the same species for proper compatibility. Well I suppose a psychosurgeon would probably also work if that's a thing you can find.

Black Canary also serves as the Team's counselor/therapist, as described here on the YJ Wiki: Black Canary
 
Chapter 2: Part 6
[X] Talk with Aqualad some more, once you've recovered a bit.

You head to your room, root yourself in the loamy soil, and turn on the room's sprinkler system to speed up your recovery. When you're done, you go back around looking for Aqualad. You eventually find him in the workout room, lifting weights. Honestly, if you still had a human libido, you'd probably find the sight of him working out shirtless enticing, but... Yeah, your libido's all weird now.

He sees you scurry in and sets his barbell down, reaching for his towel and dabbing at his sweaty brow. "Hello, Indigo Lantern. My apologies for the... ill-thought out swimming lessons. I did not think your fear of drowning to be that strong, and for that, I deeply regret distressing you."

You shrug. "Well, we gave it a go....but, you're right about how it might be good to find a way around this...how do you think i should bring it up to Canary?"

"Black Canary is our trusted combat instructor. I don't think you need bring it up in any particular way. Just raise your concerns to her and explain that it might affect missions," Aqualad explains.

You smile up at the taller Atlanean. He's five foot nine, you're five foot six when standing on your roots, so he's got a good three inches on you. "Anyone ever tell you you're... respectful?"

He cocks an eyebrow. "I don't believe so?"

"You treat everyone with a lot of respect, regardless of their age, race, or species. It's just kinda nice... I expected to get treated differently for not being human."

He smiles pleasantly at you. "Well... I am not human either, yet the Team and Justice League has treated me like anyone else. Though I suppose I am still an Earthling unlike you and M'gann, so I can see where there might be cause for concern there. But the Justice League has accepted Superman and Martian Manhunter among their ranks with little issue, so you need not worry about xenophobia from the League or Team."

You grin up at him. "It's nice to be accepted..."

He smiles. "Indeed it is..."

-o-

It's officially been a week since the Team was formed, but no missions from Batman yet. Before you head down to Earth, you stop to look at yourself in the mirror.

You stand at five foot six, with a lithe body. Your skin is green and soft and yielding to the touch, being composed of plant matter, a root skeletal system, and a milky sap as opposed to flesh, blood, and bone, granting you inhuman flexibility. While you can't tell yourself, your sap is mint-flavored and you carry with you the constant aroma of a field of wildflowers in full bloom.

Your face is human in appearance, but you have no nose and long, pointed, elven-like ears. Your eyes are solid indigo, while long, straight, grassy hair grows from atop your head and reaches what would've been your rear, currently tied into a tight ponytail. Atop your head grows a five-petaled indigo flower with yellow pistils and stamen in it. Overall, your face is pretty, with round cheeks, soft feminine features, and full lips. Your lips are a slightly darker shade of green than the rest of your skin. You lack eyelashes, though.

Your torso has the usual arms and five fingers, but you lack fingernails. Curiously, while they have no teats, your chest has a pair of faux-breasts sprouting from it, like all of your race. Even your teacher back on Phyton B wasn't one hundred percent sure why Phytognosts have them, or why certain Phytognosts have larger or smaller ones than other Phytognosts, but considering they have a higher concentration of sap than most other parts of the body, they may be moisture storage. You seem to have sure been blessed by the moisture fairy, lemme tell you. Due to their high gain to the touch and the softness of your plant matter flesh, they're also... quite a bit softer and bouncier than human mammaries. Anyway, your upper body is otherwise lithe and lacking in tone, as you don't exactly have muscles, albeit plant fibers in your plant matter flesh emulate their function.

Below the belt is where it gets weird. Instead of a waist and the usual pelvis, your body goes into a serpentine stalk the color of your green skin, flexible like a snake. The green transitions into brown as it leads to a planty bulb with numerous roots growing out of it. These roots are long enough to bend and reach the ground, and strong enough to lift your entire body off the ground and scurry around like a spider in any direction without having to turn, giving you a stable gait without the typical jarring motions of walking and hummingbird-like horizontal mobility.

Since you cannot physically wear pants due to lacking legs, you are limited to skirts and dresses. You've settled on a white blouse, the top few buttons teasingly left undone, and an overalls-style indigo jumper, with your hair tied with an indigo ribbon. On your left wrist you're wearing a colorful friendship bracelet from your best friend and on your right wrist is a wooden wristwatch, while your Indigo Power Ring is on your left middle finger and your Indigo Power Staff is held in your right hand. You generally dress casually since you can summon your Indigo Lantern uniform with your staff and ring at any time, temporarily overriding whatever you might have been wearing.

You teleport down to the Mission Room of The Cave after some time on Phyton B to find Aqualad, Superboy, and Miss Martian gathered there, dressed in casual clothes. Aqualad is wearing a black hoodless jacket, Superboy a leather jacket over a black Superman T-shirt, and Miss Martian is wearing a rosey skirt-and-jacket combo over a white T-shirt. Moments later, Kid Flash and Robin rush in, also dressed casually. Kid Flash is wearing a white long-sleeve shirt under a black jacket, while Robin is wearing a black long-sleeve jacket over a a green high-collared shirt and hiding his eyes behind sunglasses.

"Did you ask him?" Robin asks excitedly.

"What did he say?" Kid Flash continues for him.

"He's arriving now," Aqualad explains.

Kid Flash elbows Robin. "Then what are we waiting for?" The two run off, heading for the entrance.

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